Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] CodingGuidelines: recommend singular they

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

"brian m. carlson" [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I agree that in many cases we can effectively rephrase to avoid needing
to do this, but if we acknowledge that sometimes we will need to write
using third-person personal pronouns in some cases, it's worth
documenting what those should be.

I think we've heard enough from both sides and there probably is not
misunderstanding among the folks, even though there are differences
of opinions.

I would like to consider that the last draft I did [*1*] based on
earlier suggestions by Derrick and Ævar would be a reasonable middle
ground.

I'll go mostly offline next week---I'd notice if the list came up
with a vastly different concensus when I come back, but hopefully
not ;-)

Well, I misspoke.  If the list reached a consensus while I was away,
then that would have been a happy outcome, whether it was close to,
or vastly different from, the one I suggested.

In any case, I haven't even started to try catching up with the list
traffic last week, so hopefully I'll see soon enough what you folks
decided (or not).

Thanks.


[Reference]

*1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqbl86qtyf.fsf@gitster.g/ (local)